Thursday, July 21, 2005

Another USB2 adapter

PB made some suggestions after I showed them the freezing problem among USB2 in front of them this afternoon, including drivers, drives, disks, and WinXP. Of course I'd tried all of them before. I was somewhat annoyed about what they said "USB2 doesn't work properly on WinXP unless it's upgraded to sp2" when they knew mine was WinXP sp1. How far can I believe these words since I never heard of it on any document, and also the manual of the USB2 didn't say anything about sp2? I might give sp2 a go if I have a chance in the future (though I don't like sp2 and also I'm quite sure it won't work on my problem), but at this moment I just returned the adapter back and got my refund since I'd rather find another adapter at other shop (the STLab card was the only one they had). The fourth shop was Dick'n'Smith, quite a big shop. Here I found another USB2 adapter easily. DSE USB2 cardbus In case the freeze happens after home, I tested the connection in front of the staff. Oh yeah, it's NEC chipset and this time it didn't freeze after connection. We then tried to transfer some big files between my laptop and MO. Unfortunately the good luck didn't last too long - still freezed up in a few minutes. Hmm, it's odd... The staff doubted that it's my MO's problem, thus they connected the MO onto their desktop show machine. Again, it didn't freeze their system, so my MO drive and disk shouldn't be broken. But wait...the transfering speed was rediculously slow. How come it said "transfer time 120 minutes remained when it's just only a ~100MB file? ...Because the staff plugged the cable onto USB2 USB port by mistake... Anyway, we couldn't see any problem on my devices after the transfering test on their desktop through USB2 without any problem (both writing into and reading out from the MO). Now he thought it might be the pcmcia card's fault (again?). However, somehow the staff got another one, printed receipt out, handed me both the adapter and the receipt and then said, "bring both the adapter and receipt back and you may get refund if it still doesn't work at home".
...I hadn't paid for it yet...Well...
Not to mension he got emparrassed when I told him the fact and paid the money (wow, NZ$57...) Or should I have kept it secret? (He must had been working too hard today.) As with the new pcmcia adapter, the hardware problem still couldn't get improvement. Geeze... what else could go wrong?

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